Entries by martina

Paper accepted: SEED: Energy and Emission Estimation Dataset for Adaptive Video Streaming

Authors: Samira Afzal (Baylor University), Narges Mehran (Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH), Farzad Tashtarian (AAU, Austria), Andrew C. Freeman (Baylor University), Radu Prodan (University of Innsbruck), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria) Venue: IEEE VCIP 2025, December 1 – December 4, 2025, Klagenfurt, Austria Abstract: The environmental impact of video streaming is gaining more attention due to its growing share in […]

Workshop @ kwadr.at in Klagenfurt

On 24 September 2025, Senior Scientist Dr Felix Schniz held a workshop on Tarot cards for the youth centre kwadr.at in Klagenfurt. Over the course of three hours, he educated a very excited crowd on the history of the cards, their purpose for divination and self-reflection, Tarot-card-based games, and what card games have to do […]

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Daniele Lorenzi has successfully defended his PhD thesis

On Thursday, July 30, 2025, Daniele Lorenzi successfully defended his PhD thesis (QoE- and Energy-aware Content Consumption for HTTP Adaptive Streaming) under the supervision of Prof. Hermann Hellwagner and Prof. Christian Timmerer. The defense was chaired by Assoc.-Prof. DI Dr. Klaus Schöffmann and the examiners were Assoc. – Prof. Luca De Cicco and Dr.-Ing. habil. […]

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Journal paper accepted – Elsevier SPIC: 360-Degree Video Super Resolution and Quality Enhancement Challenge: Methods and Results

Authors: Ahmed Telili (TII, UAE), Wassim Hamidouche (TII, UAE), Brahim Farhat (TII, UAE), Hadi Amirpour (AAU, Austria), Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria), Ibrahim Khadraoui (TII, UAE), Jiajie Lu (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), The Van Le (IVCL, South Korea), Jeonneung Baek (IVCL, South Korea), Jin Young Lee (IVCL, South Korea), Yiying Wei (AAU, Austria), Xiaopeng Sun (Meituan Inc. China), […]

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GSE Presentation of GLOCO Virtual Campus Project

On 10 June 2025, Dr Felix Schniz presented the Virtual Campus Environment, a central achievement of the UNESCO-funded project Global Campus Online (GLOCO). The project is led by the UNESCO-Chair Univ.-Prof. Dr Hans Karl Peterlini and revolves around the organisation of global meeting platforms to foster supportive environments and knowledge exchange. The Virtual Campus Environment […]

Game Studies and Engineering at HaruCon

From 3 to 4 May, Game Studies and Engineering has been present at the HaruCon in Klagenfurt. As every year, the programme direction hosted an info-booth about Game Studies and Engineering @ AAU, enabled students to showcase their current game projects, and organised a workshop for those interested in the programme’s research. The annual HaruCon […]

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DORBINE project @ Der Standard

Farzad recently participated in an interview with the Austrian newspaper Der Standard. The conversation covered a range of topics, and the final article has now been published. You can find the full piece at the following link: https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000262214/forscher-aus-klagenfurt-inspizieren-windraeder-mit-drohnenschwaermen    

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The 2nd ACM MM Workshop on Multimedia Computing for Health and Medicine

Co-located with ACM Multimedia 2025 URL: https://weizhou-geek.github.io/workshop/MM2025.html In health and medicine, an immense amount of data is being generated by distributed sensors and cameras, as well as multimodal digital health platforms that support multimedia, such as audio, video, image, 3D geometry, and text. The availability of such multimedia data from medical devices and digital record […]

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Tutorial accepted: Perceptually Inspired Visual Quality Assessment in Multimedia Communication

ACM MM’25 Tutorial: Perceptually Inspired Visual Quality Assessment in Multimedia Communication ACM MM 2025, October 27, 2025, Dublin, Ireland https://acmmm2025.org/tutorial/ Tutorial speakers: Wei Zhou (Cardiff University) Hadi Amirpour (University of Klagenfurt) Tutorial description: As multimedia services like video streaming, video conferencing, virtual reality (VR), and online gaming continue to expand, ensuring high perceptual quality becomes […]